Eugene Robinson | There's plenty of time to get Obamacare on track

2:47 AM,
Nov. 3, 2013

Lisa Benson, Washington Post Writers Group

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Eugene Robinson

WASHINGTON - It takes chutzpah, or perhaps just an extraordinary lack of self-awareness, to argue vehemently that a program should never be implemented - and then complain it isn't being implemented well enough.

But that seems to be the new Republican position: We want the Affordable Care Act, and we want it now.

Given that House Republicans have voted dozens of times to repeal Obamacare, you'd think more of them would be cheering the "debacle" of a barely functioning website that keeps people from signing up. Instead, they demand to know who is responsible and insist that heads should roll. ...